On Feb 18, 4:33*pm, Hils wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:
On Feb 18, 1:58 pm, dave wrote:
On 02/18/2011 11:59 AM, RHF wrote:
So why should the British [UK] Taxpayers Pay For
The News and Information of Other Nations ?
Maybe the British don't want to live in a world full of idiots. The
World Service is something they can be proud of.

Yes, but conservative governments rarely believe in educating the
masses. *Idiots are their best friends.

20 years ago the World Service may have been educational; I recall it
being the most "highbrow" of all of the BBC's radio channels. What I've
heard of it recently has sounded increasingly like ratings-chasing. And
I haven't become conservative with the passing years: much the opposite!
The World Service is not what it was: I object to paying for substandard
broadcasts.

Anyway, from 2014 it will be funded from licence revenue, not from a
direct government grant.

Sebastien's point about tax evasion is a fair one. The UK government
has been colluding in it for years.

That's right - the British conservative government has lost interest
in educating.